Is there a significant difference in this set of "critical competencies" differences depending on in which area of activity the project is implemented?
Dear colleagues! What, from your point of view, are the most important competencies for the project success, which the project manager should own?
There are many critical success factors influencing project success which include - people, process & tools / technologies. Within people factors - there can be individual factors pertaining to project manager, project team members as well as team related factors. Areas that project managers can own / influence include project manager's leadership styles / roles, project manager's experience, team building activities etc. You can refer to some of my articles below if they can help shed some lights for your research.
Thank you for your models! Some approaches, incl. The Belbin role model is also used by our research team - but somewhat in another version (9 roles). The main area of research is the study of the interrelationships of the competences of the project management team members and their (competencies) distribution with the success of the project. As a basis, the IPMA ICB competence model was considered. Some links to our results are below. I think it would be possible to unite our approaches.
Thank you colleagues for sharing. One area worth looking at is the Organization's Governance, since the main frictions exist through the hierarchy whereby project managers and functional managers reach to conflicting relationships.
From my point of view, the competencies which the project manager should own is the same for all kind of projects.
On the bigs projects, with bigger risks the experience is very important. In all projecs the Project manager must have:
I give lectures on project management and the methodology of the Project Management Institute and the PMBOK and describe the following characteristics of the Project Manager:
- Able to obtain, allocate necessary resources;
- Highly organized, methodical;
- Ability to plan and control;
- High technical quality;
- Interface administration;
- Training, supervision and motivation of teams;
- Customer orientation and customer sensitivity;
- Perception and political sensitivity;
- Intense problem-solving orientation;
- Intense orientation towards goal achievement;
- High self-esteem;
- Communication capacity;
- Perseverance in the face of problems;
- Ability to handle negotiations, bargains and trade-offs;